You've heard them, I'm sure. Today I was watching an archive tape that contained, above the music, all the backstage conversation and calls by the stage manager, a video of Giselle. So where Giselle at one point in Act Two is leaned over the side of the stage to drop some flowers to Albrecht, a voice just before had said something to the effect of "Warning on the Tilt-A-Wili!"

Any similar memories?

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Stuart Sweeney [ Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:12 pm ]

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Re: Funny backstage phrases

On a parallel path, here is the link to a topic which somehow manages to combine comments about lighting with jokes about viola players and other so-called musicians. Viola players have it hard!